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Children of War (2009)

﻿A unique and incandescent documentary which follows a group of former child soldiers as they undergo a process of trauma therapy and emotional healing while in a rehabilitation center.﻿Director: Bryan Single

Rabbit Proof Fence (2002)

In 1931, three aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff and set off on a trek across the Outback.

Director: Phillip Noyce

Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000)

The story of the child refugees who were transported to Britain to escape the Nazi Holocaust.

Director: Mark Jonathan Harris

Korczak (1990)

Account of the last days of life of the legendary Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his heroic dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war.

Director: Andrzej Wajda

Machine Gun Preacher (2011)

Sam Childers is a former drug-dealing biker tough guy who found God and became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children who've been forced to become soldiers.

Director: Marc Forster

The Day My God Died (2003)

Filmed in Nepal and India this documentary presents the stories of young girls whose lives have been shattered by the child sex slave trade. The film provides actual footage from inside the brothels of Bombay, known even to the tourists as "The Cages," captured with "spy camera" technology.

Director: Andrew Levine

The Harvest (2011)

Each year there are more then 400,000 American children who are torn away from their friends, schools and home to pick the food we all eat. Zulema, Perla and Victor labor as migrant farm workers, sacrificing their own childhoods to help their families survive. The Harvest/La Cosecha profiles there three as they journey from the scorching heat of Texas' onion fields to the winter snows of Michigan apple orchards and back south to the humidity of Florida's tomato fields to follow the harvest.Director: Roberto Romano

The Official Story (1985)

The film deals with the story of an upper middle class couple who lives in Buenos Aires with an illegally adopted child. The mother comes to realize that her daughter may be the child of a desaparecidos, a victim of the forced disappearances that occurred during Argentina's last military dictatorship (1976-1983).

Director: Luis Puenzo

The Silent Army (2008)

Child soldiers in Africa are at the fore in this tale of a white restaurant owner in an African town bordering a conflict zone. When his son's African friend Abu is abducted, he sets out to find the boy, and walks right into a training camp exploiting children like Abu.

Director: Jean van de Velde

There is No Place for You Here (2011)

One hundred meters under the ground of west Africa live those who call themselves "the galamsey"- the adults and children alike who work in the illegal small-scale gold mining industry in ghana. paid 70 cents in return for 16 hours of arduous work a day, daniel, a fourteen year old boy is stuck in this cycle to survive that in exchange prevents him from furthering his education.

Trailer: http://vimeo.com/34012315

Welcome to Sarajevo (1997)

Journalist Floyd from US, Michael Henderson from UK and their teams meet the beginning of Bosnian war in Sarajevo. During their reports they find an orphanage run by devoted Mrs. Savic near the front line. Henderson gets so involved in kids' problems that he decides to take on the children, Emira, illegally back to England. He is assisted by American aid worker Nina.

Director: Michael Winterbottom

What Tomorrow Brings (2015)

What Tomorrow Brings follows one year in the life of the first all-girls school in a remote, conservative Afghan village. The film traces the inter-connected stories of those who bring the school to life: students, teachers, village elders, parents, and school founder Razia Jan. While the girls learn to read and write, their education goes far beyond the classroom to become lessons about tradition and time. They discover their school is the one place they can turn to understand the differences between the lives they were born into and the lives they dream of leading.

Director: Bet Murphy

Which Way Home (2009)

"Which Way Home" is a feature documentary film that follows unaccompanied child migrants, on their journey through Mexico, as they try to reach the United States.

Director: Rebecca Cammisa

White Material (2009)

Denis revisits Africa, this time exploring a place rife with civil and racial conflict. A white French family outlawed in its home and attempting to save its coffee plantation connects with a black hero also embroiled in the tumult. All try to survive as their world rapidly crumbles around them.

Director: Claire Denis

You don't like the truth: four days inside Guantanamo (2010)

The interrogation recordings of the underaged Canadian Guantanamo Bay prisoner, Omar Khadr, by Canadian intelligence personnel are presented with observations by his attorneys and former cell mates.